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1. Being Heumann chronicles her rise in disability activism and her thinking of disability as a civil rights issue. Some organizations and folks agree with her; others do not. In what ways does disability as a civil rights issue mirror other civil rights movements, (race, gender, sexuality); in what ways does it differ? This is not a question asking you to argue whether disability should be. Rather, this is a question asking you to examine similarities and differences between movements. All of our texts presume that disability still has a ways to go compared to other movements. After you examine similarities and differences, articulate any impediments you believe may still exist and why they may be impediments. You should use Being Heumann and any other texts or films or personal experience in constructing your answer.

2. In much of our readings and discussions, "cure" serves as an underling aspect of science applied to kinds of disorder (mental, physical, genetic, biological), which can be cured, as are also many kinds of disabilities. In contrast, class is thought of as something social in nature, and race, in today's day and age, is thought of as something that "just is," i.e. neither of these are thought of as particularly "curative" in nature. (Gender, with the trans community, particularly is in flux). Talk about science more generally and explain why we think of sexuality and/or disability as curable. What does science or society gain (or lose, perhaps) by thinking of sexuality and/or disability as curable? Use any texts or films in constructing your answer, but use at least two book or essay texts.